OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
______________ $Date: 2009/11/10 13:15:08 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta4: Released on Novemner 10th, 2009
o OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta3: Released on July 15th, 2009
o OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta2: Released on April 21st, 2009
o OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta1: Released on April 1st, 2009
o OpenSSL 0.9.8h: Released on May 28th, 2008
o OpenSSL 0.9.8g: Released on October 19th, 2007
o OpenSSL 0.9.8f: Released on October 11th, 2007
o OpenSSL 0.9.8e: Released on February 23rd, 2007
o OpenSSL 0.9.8d: Released on September 28th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.8c: Released on September 5th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.8b: Released on May 4th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.8a: Released on October 11th, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Released on July 5th, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.7m: Released on February 23rd, 2007
o OpenSSL 0.9.7l: Released on September 28th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.7k: Released on September 5th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.7j: Released on May 4th, 2006
o OpenSSL 0.9.7i: Released on October 14th, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.7h: Released on October 11th, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.7g: Released on April 11th, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.7f: Released on March 22nd, 2005
o OpenSSL 0.9.7e: Released on October 25th, 2004
o OpenSSL 0.9.7d: Released on March 17th, 2004
o OpenSSL 0.9.7c: Released on September 30th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.7b: Released on April 10th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February 19th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6m: Released on March 17th, 2004
o OpenSSL 0.9.6l: Released on November 4th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.6k: Released on September 30th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.6j: Released on April 10th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February 19th, 2003
o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
[See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html]
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
o The Makefiles fail with some SysV makes.
o
AVAILABLE PATCHES
o
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
OCSP
EVP cipher enhancement.
Enhanced certificate chain verification.
Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
o Richard is currently working on:
Constification
Attribute Certificate support
Certificate Pair support
Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
NEEDS PATCH
o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
OPEN ISSUES
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
src/Configure. It confuses.
Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
solution to be really simple.
Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
into the OpenSSL Configure script.
Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
libcrypto)
WISHES
o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
[Gregory Stark , ]
o SRP in TLS.
[wished by:
Dj , Tom Wu ,
Tom Holroyd ]
See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
be useful.